Gritzinger: This car feels oddly ungainly for a small car, starting with heaving the big coupe door open and closed. Driving, the steering feels unnaturally heavy and numb, while the engine/transmission combo seems slow-witted and very dull in a world full of high-revving, quick-reacting turbo and supercharged fours and six-speed manual and automatic transmissions.
Despite those shortcomings and some road and engine noise I could do without, the car drives fairly well, with controlled body roll and dive, decent brakes and what feels like reasonable acceleration. The interior and exterior add little to the excitement package, but Pontiac is probably holding that back for the G5 GXP—the Pontiac version of the Cobalt Supercharged SS. Get back to us when that one arrives.
